Design the Network Before You Plan the Trucks
Most logistics software starts at the truck. But the costliest supply chain decisions are made much earlier , where the warehouses sit, and which one serves which customer. Get those wrong, and no route plan can fully fix it.
Deltreq TMS now brings strategic network design and daily transport execution into one platform, through two tools: GFA and the Network Optimizer.
Two tools, two different questions
- GFA (Greenfield Analysis): answers where a facility could be located. Starting from customer locations and demand geography, it shows where a new warehouse or distribution centre would serve demand most efficiently, before real-world constraints enter the picture.
- Network Optimization: answers how the network should operate. It evaluates which facilities to use, how much volume flows through each, and how to balance freight cost, warehouse cost, capacity and service levels.
GFA explores where the network could be built. Network Optimization decides how it should run.
Intelligent Greenfield Analysis: The Fastest Path to Network Design
What Deltreq brings to each
- Deltreq GFA: turn customer locations and order volumes into candidate DC locations in minutes, and test how coverage changes as you add or remove facilities.
- Deltreq Network Optimizer: compare your current network with proposed alternatives, allocate customers to the right DC, and see the trade-offs between total cost, capacity, lead time and resilience.
- One connected platform: strategy does not stay in a slide deck. The network you design flows into Deltreq TMS for vehicle allocation, routing and freight management, and real operating data from the TMS feeds back to validate your assumptions.
Example: an FMCG company expanding across India
Consider an FMCG company serving West Bengal, the Northeast, North India and South India. Demand is growing and transport costs are rising. Here is how the questions map to Deltreq.
One caution: a good location from GFA does not automatically mean you should open a warehouse there. The Network Optimizer tests the wider economics, including facility cost, capacity, inventory and transport flows, before capital is committed.
When should you use them?
- Opening a new warehouse or DC, before approving the site, size and investment.
- Entering new markets, before launching in new states or regions.
- Redesigning the network, when freight costs climb, warehouses sit underused or facilities overlap.
- Changing sourcing or manufacturing, when a new plant changes who supplies whom.
- Planning for the unexpected, ahead of major customer wins, demand swings or disruptions.
Where to start
GFA can begin with simple customer-location and demand data. Full Network Optimization works best with more detail: current facilities, freight rates, warehouse rent and handling costs, capacities and service targets. You do not need everything on day one.
| See your network through Deltreq, Share your customer locations, order volumes, and current DC footprint, and the Deltreq team will walk you through a GFA and network scenario on your own data. Book a Deltreq TMS demo today. |
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